What is an Astigmatism?
Unequal curvature of the lens or cornea
What is another name when you have intraocular pressure in your eyes?
Glaucoma
What is another name for near sightedness?
Myopia
What is another name for farsightedness?
Hyperopia
What is the condition where your near point for vision becomes further away with age?
Presbyopia
What is a cataract?
Cloudiness of the lens
What is conjunctivitis?
Inflammation of the conjunctiva due to infection or irritant
What do you call normal vision?
Emmetropia
What kind of eye tests tests your depth perception?
Binocular Vision test
What are you testing for when you see the test with 3 straight lines in the structure of a clock?
Astigmatism
What is a near point?
How close you can get an object to your eye and still have it in focus.
What test tests your visual acuity?
Snellen Eye chart. Where the letters start big and get smaller as you go down.
Explain the blind spot in your eye. What it is and what it has or lacks.
It is your optic disc and has no rods and cones
What are tropic hormones?
Hormones that target another endocrine gland to secrete its hormones.
What is hypophysis?
Your pituitary gland
What is a chemical formed by an endocrine gland and transported by the blood to its target cell to alter cellular activity?
A hormone
What does propylthiouracil (PTU) do?
Blocks the thyroid hormone making metabolism go down.
What does basic metabolic rate of BMR mean?
It is your baseline metabolism rate when it´s not effected
What hormone does the thyroid release?
Thyroid hormone
What do you have when your thyroid doesńt secrete enough of its hormone?
HYPOthyroidism
